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World’s first ever human-monkey hybrid grown in lab in China
www.dailystar.co.uk ^ | Published 1st August 2019 | By Henry Holloway

Posted on 08/01/2019 6:29:46 AM PDT by Red Badger

A HUMAN-MONKEY hybrid has been grown in a lab in China in a world first scientific breakthrough.

Scientists have successfully formed a hybrid human-monkey embryo – with the experiment taking place in China to avoid “legal issues”.

Researchers led by scientist Juan Carlos Izpisúa spliced together the genes to grow a monkey with human cells.

It is said the creature could have grown and been born, but scientists aborted the process.

The team, made up of members of the Salk Institute in the United States and the Murcia Catholic University, genetically modified the monkey embryos.

Researchers deactivates the genes which form organs, and replaced them with human stem cells.

And it is hoped that one day these hybrid-grown organs will be able to be translated into humans.

Project collaborator Estrella Núñez hailed the experiment as “very promising”.

The team have not yet published their findings, but confirmed the hybrid to EL PAIS.

“We are now trying not only to move forward and continue experimenting with human cells and rodent and pig cells, but also with non-human primates,” Izpisúa said.

The scientist, from Spain, was responsible for creating the first human pig hybrid in 2017.

Izpisúa however said his human-monkeys are much better than his human-pigs.

Team member Pablo Ross said: “The human cells did not take hold. We saw that they contributed very little [to the development of the embryo].

“It was only one human cell for ever 100,000 pig cells.”

The scientists have also experimented with creating human birds with rats and mice, with the hope to developing transplantable hearts, eyes and pancreases.

Doctor Ángel Raya, the director of the Barcelona Regenerative Medicine Center, admitted the hybrid experiments do have “ethical barriers”.

He said: “What happens if the stem cells escape and form human neurons in the brain of the animal?

“Would it have consciousness? And what happens if these stem cells turn into sperm cells?”

Núñez has said however if any of the stem cells begin to form a human brain, they will “self destruct”.

Raya added that the embryos have a “red line” at 14 days of gestation.

This means that the embryo cannot develop a human central nervous system.

Scientists then destroys the embryos, and “in no case is the gestation brought to full term”.

The experiments cost “hundreds of thousands of euros”, Núñez added.

Núñez downplayed the fact that the university behind the research has a “catholic” moniker.

She said: “We are doing the experiments with monkeys in China because, in principle, they cannot be done [in Spain].

“What we want is to make progress for the sake of people who have a disease.

“The ultimate goal would be to create a human organ that could be transplanted.”


TOPICS: Agriculture; Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: juancarlosizpisua; murciacatholicu; salkinstitute; stemcells
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To: Red Badger

This is what has been revealed. I suspect there are more sinister experiments going on today that only the secret facilities and their scientists know about...........


61 posted on 08/01/2019 11:02:13 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I'm in the cleaning business.......I launder money)
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To: Hot Tabasco
Sharks! With friggin lasers!!!!.................😲
62 posted on 08/01/2019 11:04:42 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
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To: Mark17

Exactly....


63 posted on 08/01/2019 11:42:18 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: Mark17

All they need is dragons and other cyptozoids roaming around. Can’t say we’re far from his days.


64 posted on 08/01/2019 4:39:09 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal; MHGinTN; metmom
All they need is dragons and other cyptozoids roaming around. Can’t say we’re far from his days.

I think we are already in “his” days. A famous guy once told me, that God works miracles, fallen angels use technology. I think the Nephilim have been here since the Flood. Not sure, but Nimrod might have been a hybrid too. I think he created a false religion, the remains of which, we still see today. 👎

65 posted on 08/01/2019 5:34:25 PM PDT by Mark17 (With Jesus, there is more wealth in my soul, than acres of diamonds and mountains of gold)
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To: Hot Tabasco

I would agree. There is too much money in the gands of a few, a few who want to live much longer to enjoy their debaucheries.


66 posted on 08/01/2019 7:34:45 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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